Electric switch.



M. GUETT.

ELECTRIC SWITCH.

APPLICATION FILED Jmm, 1913.

1,108,359, Patented Aug'.25,1914,

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MONROE GUETT, F HARTFORD, OGNLI'ECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE HART &; MANUFACTURING COMFANY, 0F I-IARI'FOEID, CONNECTICUT, A WOBATION OF CONNECTICUT.

TELEUTL'BIIQ SWITCH.

ll. i ll8 lll. Specification of Letters Patent Aug, 25, 1914.

lipplication filed January 2, 13m. ficrlal No. 339,612;

To all whom it may concern Be it-lmown that 1, Monitor: GUETT, a cit1- zen of the United States, and a resident of switchin place as will crack the base. By providing the yieldingly mounted plates it is possible to firmly secure the switch in Hartford, in the county of Hartford and place without danger of cracking the base, Stateof Connecticut, have invented certain and with the use of the sleeves which are 5 new and useful Improvements in Electric brou ht into contact with the bus-bars, a. Swit ches, or" which the following is a specisuita le electrical connection is insured. fication. As hereinbefore set forth any type of This invention relates to improved means switch may be used, my invention being for securing an electric switch to a panel concerned primarily with the novel means of board, and particularly to a novel means'for securing that switch in position. establishing circuit connections between the I claim as my invention:, switch terminals and the bus-bar terminals. 1. Thecombination with a panel board In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevaand cotiperatiVely-arranged bus-bar tertion of an embodiment of my invention, minals thereon, of a switch base adapted to partly in section, Fig. 9. is an end view of the lit over said terminals, switch terminals carsame partly in section, Fig. 3 is a bottom ried by the base, yielding members electriview. cally connected with the switch terminals, in the drawings a denotes the panel board, and means passing through said yielding 6,:6, the bus-bar, a the switch bases, (Z, the members and engaging said bus-bars to Seswitch terminals, 0, the switch plate, and f, f, cure the base in position and establish electhe push buttons by which the switch plate trical connection between the busbars and is operated. switch terminals.

'The details of the switch operating mecha- 2. The combination with a panel board nism are not illustrated since they form no and the bus-bar terminal. cotiperatively ar- 30 part of the invention, though it is to be ranged thereon, of a switch base having understood that any desirable kind of elecparts overlying said terminals, switch tertric switch, either of the push button or turn minals mounted on the base, a yielding meme buttontype, may be utilized. ber mounted on the base, and electrically The underside or". the base 0 is cut away, as connected with the switch terminals, sleeves at 10, to fit over the ends of the bus-bars, and carried by said yielding members and exthe screws 11, passing through the base, protending through the base into contact with vide means for securing the switch in place, the bus-bars, and screws extending through and also for connecting the terminals cl with said sleeves and having threaded engagement the bus-bars. I with said bus-bars. 90.

In accordance with my invention, yield- 3(The combination with a panel board ingly supported plates 12, 12, are connected and the bus-bar terminals coiiperatively arwith the terminals d, d, and carry sleeves 13, ranged thereon, of an insulating base overwhich extend through and are capable of lying" in part said terminals, switch termovement in apertures 14 in the base, the minals mounted on the base, plates secured ends of the sleeves projecting slightly below to the bases of said terminals, recesses in the bottom of the bass and adapted to rest said base under the ends of said plates, upon the bus-bars. The screws 11 pass sleeves mounted insaid plates and extending through these sleeves and are-threaded into through apertures in the base into contact the bus bars, and form a common means for with the b11S-bl1S, and screws extendin securing the switch in place and for estabthrough said sleeves and having threade lishing an electrical connectionbetween the engagement with the bushels. bus-bars and the switch terminals d. 4. 'lhe combination with a panel li'dnrd lo the process of manufacture of the in and the bus bar terminals coiiperatively arsulating bases on which the switch mecharanged thereon, of a switch-base overlying 1 nism is supported they are very apt to be said terminals and apertured opposite therewarped so t at they do not fit solidly onto to, switch terminals mounted on the base, the panel board, and'if the ,screws have a sleeves extending through apertures in the bearing directly on the base it is possible to base to contact with said bus bars, said subject it to such a strain in securing the sleeves being movable-longitudinally m the 11! circuit terminals, of a switch base switch switch terminals.

apertures, means for attaching said sleeves ing through said yielding parts'and engag; 13 to the bus-bars, and a yielding connection ini said circuit terminals to secure said base between said sleeves and switch terminals. in position and establish electrical connec- 5. The combination with a pair of spaced tion between said circuit terminals and terminals carried thereby, electrical conduc- MONROE GUETT.

tors connected at one end With said teriVit nesses: nnnals, the opposite ends thereof bemg pro- A. J. BENNETT, vlded With yleldlng parts, and means pass- Roy M. Ones.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C." 

